Politics, war, marriage, crime, adultery. Everything that exists in the world has something to do with money.

There is always one moment in childhood when the door opens and lets the future in.

My two fingers on a typewriter have never connected with my brain. My hand on a pen does. A fountain pen, of course. Ball-point pens are only good for filling out forms on a plane.

Hate is a lack of imagination.

Our worst enemies here are not the ignorant and simple, however cruel; our worst enemies are the intelligent and corrupt

Innocence always calls mutely for protection when we would be so much wiser to guard ourselves against it: innocence is like a dumb leper who has lost his bell, wandering the world, meaning no harm.

Innocence is like a dumb leper who has lost his bell, wandering the world, meaning no harm.

A story has no beginning or end: arbitrarily one chooses that moment of experience from which to look back or from which to look ahead.

A single feat of daring can alter the whole conception of what is possible.

Sweet are the thoughts that savor of content: the quiet mind is richer than a crown.

People who like quotes love meaningless generalizations

Nothing can be more painful than the cry of the word which gave us the inspiration to dream of love.

Where absolute superiority is not attainable, you must produce a relative one at the decisive point by making skillful use ofwhat you have.

Neither in French nor in English nor in Mexican.

Empathy is the most radical of human emotions.

I'm really lucky because my goal, as an actor, is to disappear into the characters that I'm playing.

The inflection point at which we have arrived is one in which we are increasingly seizing the keys to all creation, as astonding as that might seem.

And about in the late '80s, I got kind of burned out a little bit.

People say they don't have time to cook, yet in the last few years we have found an extra two hours a day for the internet.

I look at the past and I see myself.

I used to go play football matches in the morning, and Id go straight from me football game to a dance competition.